HILD 2A-B-C Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: William Lloyd Garrison, American Colonization Society
3 Mar 2018
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The rise of garrisonian abolitionism (1830s: anti slavery before garrison. Formed to claim an end to slavery with first stop: sending back free blacks to. Free blacks at bethel church gathering gave a thundering no to that proposal. During this time, acs was the only supposed (cid:824)anti-slavery(cid:825) society with white people support. Sn: james madison supported acs along without prominent white men with some. Colonization (in africa) would just increased slavery. Get rid of free blacks = illogical because getting rid of the only consistent opponent to slavery (cid:820)we will not turn out backs an our brothers and sisters in bondage(cid:821) Pointed out southern planters/slaveholders signed not to eradicate slavery but with motivation to get rid of the free blacks. Northern free blacks through 1820s held national and state convention to protest slavery and institutionalized racism (ex: having harder property rights for black ppl to vote inequality by land) 1829: david walker(cid:821)s appeal, one of the most radical document.
